I'm just wondering, are all of you having problems on SMP boxes or
are any of them single processor machines? The problem seems to have
something to do with the clock and threading and I'm wondering if it's because
code that is not really thread safe, but acts like it is on a single cpu system,
is used in the kicker somewhere._________________Grrr, can't think of anything clever right now, I'll go back and edit this later (9/12/2003)

Well, after the latest qt upgrade (3.3.4 over 3.3.3), kicker now crashes on my e450 as well. I'm trying to back up to 3.3.3 to see if that corrects the situation. If not, maybe the issue lies with gcc?

FYI: A different `kicker' problem may have been solved
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2148221.html#2148221
by emerging._________________Your thread resolved? Putting [SOLVED] in its title helps all Gentooers. (Button "edit" , first post)
Prof. Jonathan LF King, Mathematics dept., University of Florida

Unfortunately, after following your instructions, kicker still crashes on my Ultra2.
Very Sad. I gave up and deleted all traces of kde from my system. I will try again
in a few months. Hopefully I can get some semblance of sound support working in
the meantime. I'd also like to get openoffice to work one of these days, it always
fails during compiling saying that the java VM detected an error in the external
code._________________Grrr, can't think of anything clever right now, I'll go back and edit this later (9/12/2003)

I had exactly the same issue on my Ultra 10. Bug soup at best. KDE is definetly problematic on Sparc. I messed around with it for over a month before giving up and loading up Black Box as a alternative.

I don't know a ton about desktops, but is there another full featured desktop similar to KDE that actually runs on a sparc?

Have just successfully compiled and installed KDE 3.4.0 on a few SPARC64 machines (Ultra 5 / Ultra 10) using gcc-3.3.5 and the kicker crash is now officially a non-issue.

My suggestion is to upgrade to 3.4.0

Did an "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~sparc emerge kde" and I also have the kicker problem, so it's no quite resolved yet

I tried Weeve's suggestion to disable the sound system in KDE: kicker still crashes.
I also tried to disable the applets on the kicker in $HOME/.kde/share/config/kickerrc, but there were no applets listed there.

Should I try to install a kernel from the 2.6.x branch? I heard that Weeve did not have this problem then...